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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aidan Work, post: 45970, member: 1824&quot;]Here&#039;s another section that will be right up Antidote&#039;s street.It is about Thalers.I know that there are many types of Thalers,with the Vereinsthaler &amp; the Reichsthaler being the most well known.I have got an Anhalt-Bernburg 1862A</p><p>Mining Thaler,whose reverse contains the inscription &#039;SEGEN DES ANHALT BERGBAUES&#039; with a pair of crossed hammers below.The obverse of this coin has a crowned bear walking from left to right along a castle wall with the inscription &#039;EIN THALER XXX EIN PFUND FEIN&#039;.The</p><p>edge inscription is &#039;GOTT SEGNE ANHALT&#039;.Could anyone please tell me what the inscriptions mean,as my command of the German language is limited.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have also got a 2 Vereinsthaler from Prussia dated 1840A,</p><p>which has a full Coat-of-Arms on the reverse.I can deduce that this is a Double Vereinsthaler as it says &#039;2 THALER 3-1/2 GULDEN&#039; &amp; &#039;VEREINS MUNZE&#039;.What does &#039;Vereins&#039; mean,as I know &#039;Munze&#039; means &#039;coin&#039;.The edge inscription is the usual &#039;GOTT MIT UNS&#039; (GOD WITH US),which is found on all Prussian mid-19th Century Thalers,&amp; all German States post-1871 3 &amp; 5 Mark coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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